It sounds like the bunch are yet another single issue party. Single issue parties get nowhere.
Actually that's not quite true. While many single issue parties vanish as fast as they came, the greens here in Germany started as a single issue party, and now get over 10% in elections. OTOH, they aren't a single issue party anymore.
But I believe it will be the same with the pirate party. Limiting themself to their "core competencies" at first, then with gaining experts for other areas slowly expanding to these areas.
Actually, in Germany you still have warranty even when modifying the device, as long as the defect wasn't caused by the modification. The problem is proving that, and doing an expert testimonial costs easily more than the repair itself. But if it proves that the defect wasn't your fault, then Nintendo has to honor the warranty *and* pay for the testimonial.
Instead of fixing fundamental flaws like the the sorting algorithm, they chose to add new features. So OO 3.0 is still no viable alternative to MS Office:/.
This is an over 4 year old "feature request". Currently marked as "to be fixed in OO 3.x".
It's OK for Scrabulous to essentially copy Scrabble because you can't copyright or patent game rules, but it's not OK to copy this game? They didn't just copy the rules, they copied whole parts of the game (including graphics and sounds, which you can copyright).
This is a known risk every early adopter makes, whether they accept it or not. Actually, this should be a known risk, but the fire sale pricing of Toshiba brought some buyers who were normally no early adopters, and consequently did not know that. So IMO Toshiba is at least partially to blame. (Although anyone doing some research would have seen that a format that did not win one single week in over a year does not stand a chance).
I mean, if those companies complain, who cares. They wouldn't get such large and prestigious allocations in an IPv6 network anyways. So what's the difference. Not relatively, but absolutely.
Plan is for *consumers* to get a/48 allocation, thats 2^80 IPs. Thats 2^48 Internets! ISPs will get from/22 to/19, dependent on their size.
I totally agree.
You watch "pirated" movies on the same screen you watch bought movies, and you listen "pirated" music through the same speakers as bought music, so you gain nothing by actually buying the legal version as far as the media experience goes.
But books you still read mostly on plain old paper, and not on screen, so as long as ebook-readers with epaper do not have a big market penetration, legal versions of books have big advantage against digital versions (yes I know there are pirate paper copies of books, but I'm talking about "consumer" piracy, not big scale piracy).
Are you telling me that the license file could be incorrect, and that to know for sure I would need to manually inspect every last line of source code to see if a different license file is specified?
But in this case I happen to agree with the first poster: libarc appears to be covered by a NON-GPL license and therefore Sony is not going to have any problems. Even if libarc itself turns out to be in violation of GPL'ed code, then it is the problem of its author, rather than Sony. You are still thinking of the wrong libarc. The article talks about this librarycalled libarc, and if you open the archive for the source you find a file COPYING that contains the GPL licence.
And that is the only licence given for this library, no other is mentioned elsewere.
Symbian OS does something like that, and is probably not the first.
Normal applications are heavily restricted in using any APIs that might change the system (or might generate costs, like sending sms, calling somewhere or connecting to the internet), and trigger an allow/deny-dialog for certain things.
Symbian Signed applications may use a big part of the Symbian API, like autostarting etc.
And there are the Symbian Signed applications with additional phone manufacturer approval, those may use everything the manufacturer chose to make public (not necessarily all things the phone offers).
Testing and developing is handled through self signing (for up to ten IMEI, so you cant use it to publish software, but its free (as in beer), so you can use it to use open source apps), and applications need to pass several tests to get approved for general signing.
It's supposed to come out in Q4 of this year.
Apple also tries to have an exclusive carrier in Europe, and the decision seems to be between Vodafone and T-Mobile, while T-Mobile seems to be winning the bid. So if you are living in a country where T-Mobile isn't present (e.g. france), you might get problems buying one it.
a new mobile phone for each person SymbianOS and Windows Mobile do support IPv6, so at least for smartphone users no need for new phones.
a new computer windows since xp does come with an IPv6 stack, vista even enabled as default; and linux/*bsd/etc come with it since ages. For 2k there is a downloadable update, and for NT and 9x are several commercial implementations.
a new [xbox|ps2|ps3|nintendo] 1. I doubt MS/Sony/Nintendo would dare not to release a firmware upgrade with ipv6 support. Though not for ps2 or any nintendo handhelds, as for theres no firmware update capability.
2. Buying a new xbox/ps2/ps3/etc won't help against the games not supporting IPv6.
a new modem Modems generally don't care about layer 3.
But if you are talking about routers with integrated modem, then yes, most likely you need a new router (except when you have an openwrt compabible one, then you don't. but then you also don't belong to the group that gets told something).
Just like Microsoft did with the 360, Sony is releasing a very small amount of consoles at a price far below the market value. Sony isn't making money now. The reason is to make the PS3 seems desirable and popular for when they release the big batch just before the hollidays. Sony _wants_ headlines about PS3s selling out quickly. And what better way to get media attention than violence?
Do you really believe, Sony chose to release only a rediculous amount of consoles in the US and Japan, and postpone the europe release for half a year, risking losing to nintendo?
They have production problems, serious production problems, and the cause is a shortage of blue laser diodes for the blu-ray drives. Everything else they have plenty of, but at a yield of 30% [1], the demand for the diodes is much higher than the supply, and not only sony but the whole hd-dvd and blu-ray market is suffering, but wasn't really visible until now.
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It sounds like the bunch are yet another single issue party. Single issue parties get nowhere.
Actually that's not quite true. While many single issue parties vanish as fast as they came, the greens here in Germany started as a single issue party, and now get over 10% in elections. OTOH, they aren't a single issue party anymore.
But I believe it will be the same with the pirate party. Limiting themself to their "core competencies" at first, then with gaining experts for other areas slowly expanding to these areas.
Actually, in Germany you still have warranty even when modifying the device, as long as the defect wasn't caused by the modification. The problem is proving that, and doing an expert testimonial costs easily more than the repair itself. But if it proves that the defect wasn't your fault, then Nintendo has to honor the warranty *and* pay for the testimonial.
Instead of fixing fundamental flaws like the the sorting algorithm, they chose to add new features. So OO 3.0 is still no viable alternative to MS Office :/.
This is an over 4 year old "feature request". Currently marked as "to be fixed in OO 3.x".
So IMO Toshiba is at least partially to blame.
(Although anyone doing some research would have seen that a format that did not win one single week in over a year does not stand a chance).
Not relatively, but absolutely.
Plan is for *consumers* to get a
I totally agree. You watch "pirated" movies on the same screen you watch bought movies, and you listen "pirated" music through the same speakers as bought music, so you gain nothing by actually buying the legal version as far as the media experience goes. But books you still read mostly on plain old paper, and not on screen, so as long as ebook-readers with epaper do not have a big market penetration, legal versions of books have big advantage against digital versions (yes I know there are pirate paper copies of books, but I'm talking about "consumer" piracy, not big scale piracy).
But in this case I happen to agree with the first poster: libarc appears to be covered by a NON-GPL license and therefore Sony is not going to have any problems. Even if libarc itself turns out to be in violation of GPL'ed code, then it is the problem of its author, rather than Sony. You are still thinking of the wrong libarc. The article talks about this librarycalled libarc, and if you open the archive for the source you find a file COPYING that contains the GPL licence.
And that is the only licence given for this library, no other is mentioned elsewere.
Symbian OS does something like that, and is probably not the first. Normal applications are heavily restricted in using any APIs that might change the system (or might generate costs, like sending sms, calling somewhere or connecting to the internet), and trigger an allow/deny-dialog for certain things. Symbian Signed applications may use a big part of the Symbian API, like autostarting etc. And there are the Symbian Signed applications with additional phone manufacturer approval, those may use everything the manufacturer chose to make public (not necessarily all things the phone offers). Testing and developing is handled through self signing (for up to ten IMEI, so you cant use it to publish software, but its free (as in beer), so you can use it to use open source apps), and applications need to pass several tests to get approved for general signing.
It's supposed to come out in Q4 of this year. Apple also tries to have an exclusive carrier in Europe, and the decision seems to be between Vodafone and T-Mobile, while T-Mobile seems to be winning the bid. So if you are living in a country where T-Mobile isn't present (e.g. france), you might get problems buying one it.
2. Buying a new xbox/ps2/ps3/etc won't help against the games not supporting IPv6. a new modem Modems generally don't care about layer 3.
But if you are talking about routers with integrated modem, then yes, most likely you need a new router (except when you have an openwrt compabible one, then you don't. but then you also don't belong to the group that gets told something).
Uhh... welcome to 2007. The tax in Germany is almost the same, 19%, since january.
They have production problems, serious production problems, and the cause is a shortage of blue laser diodes for the blu-ray drives. Everything else they have plenty of, but at a yield of 30% [1], the demand for the diodes is much higher than the supply, and not only sony but the whole hd-dvd and blu-ray market is suffering, but wasn't really visible until now.
[1] http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060828PR206.h
Just for your interest, Japan is currently discussing making the NHK Fee mandatory, as many refuse to pay it. That will leave only canada.